November 2006
media teacher's home page, lots of resouces, links pages
"news and journalism, film, TV, media policy, media reform activism, philosophy and social theory, urban history, contemporary American politics--\perspective informed by media history, political economy and social and cultural theory."
Cyberstudies webring
collection of sites with interest in cyberculture, many from the social sciences
The Dead - Billy Collins Animated Poem
video by Juan Delcan; model for students about good uses of new form of production and exhibition
Center for History and New Media
extensive site, with resources about historical moments and syllabi, tools for Internet research, and projects undertaken by the Center
Vectors Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular
"multiple contours of daily life in an unevenly digital era... how technology shapes, transforms, reconfigures, and/or impedes social relations...including issues of globalization, mobility, power, and access"
'The Science Of Ghosts' - Derrida In 'Ghost Dance' (1983)
Derrida plays himself in 1983 film about concepts of memory; he says he is here a ghost in the art of ghosts, cinema. Many clips from this film found here
benditonontze.swf (application/x-shockwave-flash Object)
a fascinating narrative flash animation, perhaps a metaphor about war in our times
Furtherfield Links
extensive set of links to digital art projects, grouped by themes and types
Teaching Art in the Context of Everyday Life
a useful essay for all production teachers who want students to see the world around them anew
NMEDIAC : THE JOURNAL OF NEW MEDIA AND CULTURE : nmediac.net
papers and audiovisual texts on "the discourses, ideologies, and human experiences/uses of new media apparatuses"
Gender Identity Panel - Resources
links to many interesting online hypertext, visually innovative works; some links no longer functional
October 2006
PhD Project: Vernacular Creativity and New Media at creativity/machine
abstract for thesis that sparks some interesting trains of thought
Swarming Media
blog that give good reports on conferences and reviews of books, often on digital culture
Journal for MultiMedia History - Volume 3 (2000) Contents Page
journal of history that uses hypertext and multimedia
I Want Media - Media News & Resources
media headlines, regrettably no RSS feed for site
"Theses on Distributed Aesthetics" by Anna Munster & Geert Lovink
We live inside fragmented and spatially dispersed networks, and do not just use the computer as part of a network.
September 2006
Second Story Interactive Studios
a collection of exemplary multimedia projects, some for exhibitions, some hypertext fiction. Many available. Good models for students learning how to do such projects in terms of design and useability.
July 2006
timescape syllabus
course outline with interesting links, especially lecture notes: "Since the birth of cinema, architectural and urban space, and ideas of landscape have played a crucial role in the visual representation of space on screen."
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